... clean drinking water, and more than 4,000 children die every day from diseases

... imitate their favorite hip-hop artists. Both those on stage and in the ... after fistfights broke out among the 2,000 Ivorians gyrating wildly in the aisles

by Mumia Abu-Jamal | 02.17.2008 For while inner city poverty ... Between Rap & Reggae {col. writ. 2/8/08} (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal When we ... rap and reggae, we are looking at the art forms which share many similarities,

... days of the South African Rap scene, artists tried to imitate the American Hip Hop

... political statement. The most popular artists and groups are often those who rap ... to bring socially committed Hip-Hop artists from Africa, Latin America, Europe and ... the World Urban Forum. Twelve Hip Hop artists/groups, plus Carlinhos Brown a

INTRO The furor over the name of rapper Nas’s forthcoming CD perfectly illustrates the divide between the civil rights generation and the younger hip-hop generation, which has benefited from the social advances the elders fought for.

great selection of links on this blog entry, video clips etc., well worth checking out

Trailer for a documentary about Palestinian hiphop. Click the Utube Link above. Clip from http://slingshothiphop.com/ Palestinian Hip Hop linkage: Free the P http://freethep.com/ Ramallah Underground http://www.ramallahunderground.com/ Iron Sheik http://ww

... address large crowds. Yet edgier artists, especially most current rappers,

... with a petition signed by over 620,000 people expressing concern over what